St Cuthbert's RC High School

Last term's school production of Queen's We Will Rock You

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Over 60 pupils from Years 8-11 were involved in last term's school production of Queen's We Will Rock You'. Pupils took part in a range of activities such as perform-ing, being part of the make-up team, helping the backstage crew and as front of house hospitality. This was a challenging show with 17 songs which kept the school show band busy.

The cast played to a full house every night with friends and family supporting the young performers. The four main characters were played by pupils in Yr 8 and 9. This was a huge responsibility for such a young cast but they met the challenge superbly. The Expressive Arts department are extremely proud of the pupils involved and were able to celebrate with students at the end of show party. A fabulous end to 2016.

• Computer Science: Well Done to Dale Hedderman our Computing All Star for this week for his program which ran without any errors. The first one to appear on our 2017 All Stars board.
• Art: Year 11 groups have begun working on their exam projects this week and have made a great start, with a particularly confident beginning made by Kaine Boland and Eleanor Goodwin.
• Health and Social: Year 11 have nearly completed their Health and Social Care con-trolled assessment, the deadline date is February half term. After school intervention sessions are available Monday, Tuesday and Wednesdays, students are encouraged to attend if they have outstanding tasks or want to improve their grade.
• Drama: Year 11 pupils are developing their monologues and duologues for controlled assessment. This is a particularly challenging task which students have responded to very positively
• Music: Year 11 are finishing off their Unit 2 compositions and appraisals. Pupils are required to create and evaluate a piece of their own Music. They are also asked to in-clude musical influences which range from Beethoven to Pachelbel's Canon Media Studies: Year 10 pupils are preparing ideas for their own film trailers. They are re-searching professional trailers for inspiration to understand the media language used in their chosen genre.
• Year 11: Raising Achievement and Progress The Y11 RAP team met on Tuesday to analyse the progress of Year 11. The team have been working hard to map out thera-pies for each student. These are designed to ensure that they make progress in line with their potential. The final slog for Y11 is about to begin and we are sure it will pay off.

Pastoral Rewards

Last week, 42 pupils from years 7/8/9 were rewarded for the exemplary behaviour they demonstrated during the first term with a trip to Chill Factore. Here they had the chance to take part in sledging, tobogganing, ski slope donuts and luging. Despite the sub-zero temperatures, all pupils really enjoyed the experience and are already looking forward to the Spring Reward trip at the end of this term. In addition to this, the first term’s Year 8 Attendance Dream Team Challenge was won by form 8.1

They were treated to a breakfast consisting of fresh fruit juices, Danish pastries and bacon and sausage butties.

Post-16 Information

Students that have applied for courses at Rochdale Sixth Form have been having their interviews this week. They have discussed the different courses with staff from the college, including the principal, so now need to focus on working hard towards achieving their grades

Bury College Open Evening takes place on 9 February, 5.30pm-7.30pm and is an op-portunity to discover the wide range of A Level and Vocational opportunities.

Expressive Arts Stars of the Week

• Madison McGarry for excellent progress in Drama. 
• Giselle Danleme for a superb naturalistic performance. 
• Shantel Caveney for her fantastic Movie Music performance assessment. 

Maths Stars of the Week

• Kamen Ray for improved effort and attitude. - Mrs Easby.
• Courtney Hawley for showing continuous hard work- Mr Zahoor.
• Isabela Heighway for maintaining her good work from last term.- Mr Duffin 
• Alix Woodward for amazing construction work in maths! - Mrs Holt 
• Kasim Bari for his amazing attitude to his work - Mrs Holden 
• Luke Barton for a great test score - Mrs Murray 
• Molly Schofield for excellent work- Mrs Didyk-Wild

MFL Stars of the Week

• Mrs Ward: Nitin Babu for excellent speaking Controlled Assessment.
• Mrs Gutic: Sean Greaves (Year 1) for an excellent start to Spanish.
• Miss Taylor: Nondja Tavares for her excellent effort in the Spanish assessment.
• Miss Phillips: Leo Abraham for his attention to detail and inquisitiveness in French.